Faculty-Led Travel Seminars

Each year, Skidmore sponsors a number of faculty-led travel seminars to locations around the world (see list below). Travel seminar courses must offer a carefully structured, focused, and challenging learning experience. These programs allow students to accompany one or two faculty members as they explore a focused topic that uses the destination as a classroom.

Travel Seminar FAQs

• Germany: Glitter and Doom (January)
  

• Application Deadline Extended: April 1st

• Brochure
• On-campus course syllabus
  
• Travel seminar syllabus
  
  

Past Travel Seminars

Programs offered previously have included:

Academic Year 2012-13:

• Costa Rica (March)
  
  Tropical Field Ecology (Monica Raveret Richter - Biology, Kim Marsella - Academic Advising)
  

• Ireland (March)
  
  Culture and Commerce (Jim Kennelly - Management & Business, Peter McCarthy - Social Work)
  
  
• London and Athens (May)
  
  The Parthenon: From Pericles to the Present (Michael Arnush - Classics, Leslie Mechem - Classics)
  

Academic Year 2011-12:

• Kyoto, Japan (Summer)

Japanese Culture and Art (Sang Wook Lee - Art)

• New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., United States (May)

Opening Nights (David Howson - Arts Administration)

• Berlin, Germany (May)

Glitter and Doom (Mary-Beth O'Brien and Karin Hamm-Ehsani - Foreign Languages and Literature)

• Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand (January)

New Zealand on the Edge (Kyle Nichols and Sarah Stelmack - Geosciences)

Academic Year 2010-2011:

• Bath, England (January)

Jane Austen in Bath (Catherine Golden - English)

• Istanbul, Turkey (January)

Globalization and Development in Turkey (Jim Kennelly - Management and Business and Mehmet Odekon - Economics)

• Rome, Italy (May)

Writing Rome (Dan Curley - Classics and Jackie Murray - Classics)

Academic Year 2009-2010:

• Paris and London (January)

Museums From the Outside In (Sue Bender – Anthropology and Alison Barnes – English and Environmental Studies)

• Vienna, Austria (January)

Waltz, Coffeehouses, Dreams: Culture and History in Vienna, Austria (Mary-Beth O'Brien – FLL-German and Jim Kennelly – Management & Business for David Wildermuth) 

• Costa Rica (March)

Tropical Field Ecology in Costa Rica (Monica Raveret-Richter – Biology and Christina Grassi - Anthropology)

Academic Year 2008-2009:

• India (January)

Hindu Religion and Art in India (Joel Smith – Religion and Rob Linrothe – Art History)

• Puerto Rico (January)

Culture and Colonialism in Puerto Rico (Jordana Dym – History and Viviana Rangil – Spanish)

Academic Year 2007-2008:

• Argentina & Chile (January)

Over the Andes and to the Sea: Politics, Economic Development, and Culture in Argentina and Chile (Patricia Rubio – Spanish and Aldo Vacs – Government)

• Bath, England (January)

Jane Austen in Bath (Catherine Golden – English)

• Costa Rica (March)

Tropical Field Ecology in Costa Rica (Monica Raveret-Richter – Biology and Christina Grassi - Anthropology) 

Academic Year 2006-2007:

• Vienna, Austria (January)

Waltz, Coffeehouses, Dreams: Culture and History in Vienna, Austria (Tom Denny – Music and David Wildermuth – FLL-German)

• Poland & Germany (March)

From Marx to Coca Cola: Transitions in Poland and Germany (Mary-Elizabeth O’Brien – German and International Affairs and Elzbieta Lepkowska-White – Management and Business) 

Academic Year 2005-2006:

• Ireland (January)

Changing Utterly: Ireland Past and Present (Jim Kennelly – Management and Business)

• Tanzania (March)

Tanzania: Origins and Crossroads of Culture (Gerald Erchek – Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work and Chris Whann – Government)

• Costa Rica (March)

Tropical Field Ecology in Costa Rica (Monica Raveret-Richter – Biology and Christina Grassi - Anthropology) 

Academic Year 2004-2005:

• Bath, England (January)

Jane Austen in Bath (Catherine Golden – English)

• Ghana (March)

Chocolate and Gold: Culture and Politics in Ghana (Gerald Erchek – Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work and Chris Whann – Government)

• Greece (2005)

Skidmore Odyssey: Classics Study Tour in Greece (Michael Arnush – Classics, Dan Curley – Classics, and Leslie Mechem – Classics)

Various Years:

• South Africa
  

South Africa: Educational Study Program (Karen Brackett – Education Studies)